Jean-Luc Fernandez, a whole life in music

It all started at age five

Jean-Luc entered the National Music Conservatory of Perpignan, in the south of France, at the age of five. In middle school he joined a special music-intensive program: sixteen hours of music per week, every week, for years. At that age nobody talks about a career yet. It's simply obvious.

At the conservatory he studied the trumpet. Then he discovered the guitar, and something clicked: he wanted to sing and accompany himself. Nobody taught him the instrument, so he learned alone, using the method books of Marcel Dadi, the French master of fingerpicking. Hours of practice, calluses on his fingers, and a growing certainty.

Fourteen: the first songs

At fourteen, Jean-Luc pushed open the door of the Marlene Nuage performing arts school in Perpignan, where he worked on singing, theatre and stagecraft. A detail that says everything about him: he paid for those classes with his own pocket money.

That same year, he wrote his first original songs. He never stopped. Forty years later, writing a song is still the most natural thing he does.

From stage to studio

Over the years, Jean-Luc broadened his craft with music production and orchestration. He opened a recording studio near Perpignan and trained professionally in sound engineering and live show management at the IDEM school.

On stage, he won several singing competitions performing his own compositions. In the studio, he wrote and produced albums for local artists. In between: hundreds of concerts, and the kind of experience no school provides: feeling, live, what moves an audience.

Today: your stories, his songs

With Ma Chanson Perso, Jean-Luc puts that entire journey to work for one purpose: creating custom songs that celebrate the moments that truly matter. A birthday, a wedding, a birth, a tribute. Your story arrives as a few lines in a form; it leaves as music.